One of the lovely features of the book is that it all hangs together with one look, rather than use photos of buildings of varying quality they are all illustrations and obviously tie-in with all the flat plans and other graphics. Can the subject be that simple? Well, of course not but Ching makes it seem so by explaining the principles in straightforward way. This new edition of 'Architecture' uses the highly pictorial format as all his books.Įach of the seven chapters starts with drawings of very basic forms and then expands the concepts using flat plans and dimensional illustrations of buildings (all of which have a caption with location, architect and date) to reveal the essence of structures through the centuries. Ching (now seventy-two) seems to have cornered the market on accessible visual book on the subject, I already have his 'Building construction illustrated' and the 'Visual dictionary of architecture'. Since we move in TIME through a SEQUENCE of SPACES revealed for everyoneĪ welcome fourth edition of Francis Ching's excellent book on the fundamentals of architecture.
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